基于“会员逻辑”和“影响逻辑”、“市场支持性”活动和“市场补充性”活动等相关理论,行业协会对内职能中的“规划发展”、“设计研发”、“品牌创新”和“市场营销”,与对外职能中的“对外交流合作”和“与政府部门合作”等,构成了它促进产业升级的六个基本维度。通过多案例比较研究发现,行业协会在产业升级中的作用具有不同类型。行业协会自身实力决定了协会对内部资源和外部资源的汲取能力,其内部资源和外部资源分别受协会所在产业的产业类型和(或)产业地位与政府等其他外部机构的影响和制约。而协会的资源汲取能力大小和内外部资源的多少决定了它在产业升级中对内职能和对外职能的强弱。
Based on such theories as "the logic of membership" and "the logic of influence", as well as " market-support" and "market-complementation", this paper discusses six basic factors in upgrading industry associations their internal roles of "planning and development", "design, research and development", "brand innovation", and "marketing and sales", and their external roles of "exchange and cooperation" and "cooperation with government". A comparative multi-case study reveals that there exist different types as far as the roles of industry associations in industrial upgrading are concerned. The paper also puts forward an interaction mechanism of the roles of industry associations in industrial upgrading: the strengths of an industry association determine its capability of utilizing internal and external resources, which are in turn affected and constrained by the industrial type and/or status as well as the government and/or other external agencies. On the other hand, its capacity of utilizing resources and the quantity of its internal and external resources determine its competence and strengths in industrial upgrading.